Fix what’s wrong, but don’t rewrite what the artist wrote. Stick to the official released version — album booklet, label site, verified lyric video, etc. If you’re guessing, pause and double-check.
Respect the structure
Songs have rhythm. Pages do too. Leave line breaks where they belong. Don’t smash things together or add extra empty space just for looks.
Punctuation counts (but vibe-editing doesn’t)
Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.
Don’t mix versions
If you’re editing the explicit version, keep it explicit. If it’s the clean version, keep it clean. No mashups.
Let the lyrics be lyrics
This isn’t the place for interpretations, memories, stories, or trivia — that’s what comments are for. Keep metadata, translations, and bracketed stage directions out unless they’re officially part of the song.
Edit lightly
If two lines are wrong… fix the two lines. No need to bulldoze the whole page. Think ‘surgical,’ not ‘remix.’
When in doubt, ask the crowd
Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.
Standard disclaimer: The lads from BoC prefer for listeners to project their own impressions into their music. Of course, curiosity and a desire to see more in their great soundscapes compels many of us to dig a little.
Resources on the 'net attribute "past inside the present" to the socialist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Without researching any further, I pondered if the sound clip could be Brecht himself. (anyone?)
Regardless, learning more about Brecht was inspiring for me, and strengthened my already great love of this track.
It's hard to do traditional interpretation on such a track, but the authors would probably hate that, anyway. :) IMPRESSIONS, yes!
I guessed that there was alot of thought behind this and other tracks on Geogaddi. There's a somber feeling to this one for me. Lots of peril and a little hope, too, maybe. The title set off a firestorm of questions, since such is the nature of the human brain.
The music, on first impression, appealed to me right away. The rhythm compelled me first, with that great, insistent thumping, which is constant. The audio bite intrigued me, and led me to the research that educated me on Brecht. It's kind of like an un-naturally heavy rainstorm, with a weird kind of non-stop thunder. You'd be frightened of it, but you're too intrigued or even awed with the surreality of the event.
Love it.
-Phase
Music, like math, is a universal language, which we use to make sense of things that we wouldn't otherwise be able to understand. "The past inside the present" could be referring to how, even though times change, music and math remain constant. That's how I see it, anyway.
Math is describing states, states have their past inherent (like the billion years long past of a stone formed his present appearance) therefore math also describes their past, or could.
Considering that BoC is putting very special emotions into their tracks, and Geogaddi alone is an overwhelming experience of an emotional journey (for some, at least for me) btw,
the 'past inside the present' could be a description of the music... or everything.
The thing at the end sounds like purple to me, too. uhm, but purple...i heard somewhere it stands for spirituality. maybe it is 'be careful', that would make more sense.
I plugged my iPod in downstairs in my living room and sat there by myself in the dark listening to this song (while eating Nesquick) and it was bliss. This in the dark is so cool.
today, just now, I was listening to a joy division song on youtube (ceremony) and the video was made up of all these pictures of ian and the guys and i was overcome by all these feelings, thinking, wow, he's just dead.. he's gone.. and there was this picture of him and morris, and they're just smiling with a guitar on their laps. i thought, well, you know, he IS dead but RIGHT NOW, in the past, he is sitting there with his guitar and he's smiling. it's happening right now, but in the past! i've never thought about the parallel time theory before. i was just researching, reading people's stories and then I remembered this song! "the past inside the present" .. what a nice way to put it.
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Standard disclaimer: The lads from BoC prefer for listeners to project their own impressions into their music. Of course, curiosity and a desire to see more in their great soundscapes compels many of us to dig a little.
Resources on the 'net attribute "past inside the present" to the socialist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Without researching any further, I pondered if the sound clip could be Brecht himself. (anyone?)
Regardless, learning more about Brecht was inspiring for me, and strengthened my already great love of this track.
It's hard to do traditional interpretation on such a track, but the authors would probably hate that, anyway. :) IMPRESSIONS, yes!
I guessed that there was alot of thought behind this and other tracks on Geogaddi. There's a somber feeling to this one for me. Lots of peril and a little hope, too, maybe. The title set off a firestorm of questions, since such is the nature of the human brain. The music, on first impression, appealed to me right away. The rhythm compelled me first, with that great, insistent thumping, which is constant. The audio bite intrigued me, and led me to the research that educated me on Brecht. It's kind of like an un-naturally heavy rainstorm, with a weird kind of non-stop thunder. You'd be frightened of it, but you're too intrigued or even awed with the surreality of the event. Love it. -Phase
Music, like math, is a universal language, which we use to make sense of things that we wouldn't otherwise be able to understand. "The past inside the present" could be referring to how, even though times change, music and math remain constant. That's how I see it, anyway.
But, "Constants are Changing"..
But, "Constants are Changing"..
the 'be careful' can be heard in the background around 3:50
love it.
i had thought "be careful" was "purple" instead. whichever it really is, it is said twice consecutively
Math is describing states, states have their past inherent (like the billion years long past of a stone formed his present appearance) therefore math also describes their past, or could. Considering that BoC is putting very special emotions into their tracks, and Geogaddi alone is an overwhelming experience of an emotional journey (for some, at least for me) btw, the 'past inside the present' could be a description of the music... or everything.
The thing at the end sounds like purple to me, too. uhm, but purple...i heard somewhere it stands for spirituality. maybe it is 'be careful', that would make more sense.
The past inside the present thus the present inside the future, like listening to an old song now
I plugged my iPod in downstairs in my living room and sat there by myself in the dark listening to this song (while eating Nesquick) and it was bliss. This in the dark is so cool.
I'm sure that Nesquick fits this song very well
I'm sure that Nesquick fits this song very well
Oh shut up.
Oh shut up.
today, just now, I was listening to a joy division song on youtube (ceremony) and the video was made up of all these pictures of ian and the guys and i was overcome by all these feelings, thinking, wow, he's just dead.. he's gone.. and there was this picture of him and morris, and they're just smiling with a guitar on their laps. i thought, well, you know, he IS dead but RIGHT NOW, in the past, he is sitting there with his guitar and he's smiling. it's happening right now, but in the past! i've never thought about the parallel time theory before. i was just researching, reading people's stories and then I remembered this song! "the past inside the present" .. what a nice way to put it.